Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1964 , although widely expected to reach the higher echelons of the Army , Winchester retired at his own request and settled in Kenya , where he kept dairy cattle on a farm outside Nairobi . |
| 2 | Time after time Nizan hammered out his basic message : the internal logic of fascism is rearmament leading to war ; the only way to prevent the catastrophe of a world-wide conflict is the creation of a potent counterbalancing force expressly designed to curb the expansionist tendencies of fascist nation states ; peace will be possible only if it is guaranteed by an effective network of alliances forged between civilised , peace-loving nations such as France , Great Britain and , above all , the USSR . |
| 3 | Notice that the language discussed here is only intended to describe the individual states and the goal of the task , and the conditions for applying operators . |
| 4 | All this of course took up a great deal of time and delayed the completion of Robyn 's thesis on the nineteenth-century industrial novel , which had to be constantly revised to take the new theories into account . |
| 5 | Walden talked about the way in which Britain 's role had been artificially inflated by the cold war : ‘ What could be better calculated to raise the national spirits than a government holding the flag high in the face of the evils of communism , the murderous follies of buffoonish Argentinian generals , and the intrigues of the perfidious French ? ’ |
| 6 | UEFA is unlikely to reduce a punishment apparently designed to make the Dutch authorities , civil as well as sporting , take hooliganism as seriously as the British have been obliged to . |
| 7 | Yesterday , at the railway embankment , he and a group of friends all reckoned to know the two youths who abducted two-year-old James . |
| 8 | It may also be that such employers were , at least in the early 1970s , less prepared to make the organizational adjustments which make it feasible for mothers to combine paid work with responsibility for young children . |
| 9 | The gentleman farmer has long sought to preserve the aesthetic qualities of the English countryside and has provided the backbone of the CPRE . |
| 10 | ‘ 1966 , ’ he replied , ‘ when they only used to show the important ones — the ones that really mattered . |
| 11 | Just as he began to fear that he was running for his life through a nightmare landscape that had no end , the ground suddenly opened to reveal the rushing waters of the beck and the section of crumbling stone wall on its other side . |
| 12 | The discriminatory policies of Poland , which had been prompted by Germany 's boycott of Polish coal in 1925 , had by this time developed into a fully-fledged trade war , and this , combined with the effects of the new port at Gdynia , the increasing Jewish population , the irritating presence of Danzig Poles and the continual clucking of the League of Nations , all helped to shift the political perceptions of the local population towards simplistic , populist , nationalist and ultimately racist solutions — namely those offered by the Nazi Party . |
| 13 | Carrickfergus itself , lacking walls and protected only by a ruined castle , rapidly surrendered when the garrison 's ammunition ran out and the Belfast authorities were sufficiently intimidated to send the French provisions when they demanded them . |
| 14 | I 've long wanted to knock the groovesome dudes over like a pack of skittles ! ’ |
| 15 | The salaries of staff , the replacement of vital instruments and many large items had to be funded from the National Health Service funds , so that there was never enough left to buy the extra comforts that made all the difference to the welfare of the patients . |
| 16 | Cromwell obviously planned to bring the northern forests more closely under his control , and to ferret out encroachments upon the Forest rights of the Crown . |
| 17 | Those formulating agreements are obviously better advised to avoid the particular frameworks captured by the Act . |
| 18 | Long failed to persuade the richer boroughs and the Cabinet to include a degree of late equalization in the Act which was , however , important as an admission of government responsibility for relief to the unemployed . |
| 19 | The hope seems to be that nurses will be better prepared and better enthused to address the nursing needs of society without the shackles placed on them by an outmoded system of training . |
| 20 | The difficulties that sometimes occur is that erm universities are I would say with some justice do n't always accept that it is Government and Government departments , ministers and civil servants , who are best equipped to define the social needs . |
| 21 | No new vision , no new votes Stuart Hall says that Labour desperately needed to address the changing aspirations of the British electorate , but reverted to traditional doctrine instead |
| 22 | And just keep a record of the time that I recorded it and er a little bit I 've just got to give the first names of the people that were talking but it 's done anonymously so there 's no no problem with that . |
| 23 | With China already set to become the biggest telecommunications market in the world , a new network could signal an unprecedented bout of order opportunities for foreign companies . |
| 24 | The Security Treaty , with its underlying motive of making Japan a strong ally in the Pacific area , has thus served to reinforce the close ties with the US that were forged during the Occupation period . |
| 25 | ‘ I have just tried to learn the positive things from people before me who have been dropped . ’ |
| 26 | Oral historians had meanwhile begun to record the earlier memories of ordinary old people , working right across the country . |
| 27 | Liberal forces have already begun to collect the million signatures needed to call a popular vote . |
| 28 | But Allison has gone further than just stating the theoretical arguments for the process , he has already begun to explore the actual practicalities of implementing assessment techniques with the aid of students in his department . |
| 29 | In the 1950s , the National Service Army of some 450,000 men with 77,000 in BAOR had just managed to win the anti-terrorist campaigns in Malaya , Kenya and Cyprus . |
| 30 | Producer for both the new single and October-scheduled album was Craig Leon — he of numerous Fall credits — who has finally managed to capture the beefy FADS live sound on tape . |